July 07, 2008

Ovens Are Really Hot!

I wasn't kidding when I wrote in one of my earliest posts that "my mother’s oven bakes faster than the speed of sound."

Be careful...ovens, and the things that come out of them, are hot! I made my Lime in the Coconut cookies for Mumma when Jon and I visited her last week, and I accidentally tapped my arm with the piping-hot edge of a cookie sheet and gave myself a nasty burn. Needless to say, I look like I've been branded by the Half-Sheet Pan Ranch.

So what's the take-away here?

Handle one cookie sheet at a time. Don't try to take one out and put one in at the same time.

If you can, wear long sleeves when you're cooking or baking.

Have lots of Neosporin in your medicine cabinet.

Don't use butter to treat a burn. (This is actual advice I got in my junior high school health class. But doesn't this advice beg the question: Why would anyone even think of using butter to treat a burn? Corn yes. Flesh wounds no.)